Almeley railway station

Almeley
Almeley station platform
Location	Almeley, Herefordshire England
Coordinates	52°09′31″N 2°58′56″W / 52.1587°N 2.9822°W / 52.1587; -2.9822Coordinates: 52°09′31″N 2°58′56″W / 52.1587°N 2.9822°W / 52.1587; -2.9822
Grid reference	SO329516
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Kington and Eardisley Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
3 August 1874	Station opened
1 January 1917	Station closed
11 December 1922	Station reopened
1 July 1940	Station closed

Almeley railway station was a railway station on the line from Kington to Eardisley in the English county of Herefordshire.

History[]

Opened on the Kington and Eardisley Railway, operated from the outset by the Great Western Railway, the station closed during the Second World War.

The site today[]

The station building, which was used for many years as a cattle shed, has recently been converted into a dwellinghouse. The platform still exists.

References[]

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Kington to Eardisley Line

Further reading[]

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Branch Lines around Hay-on-Wye. Middleton Press. fig. 37. ISBN 9781904474920. OCLC 288983659.

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